Okay, there's a fic this really remind me me of (well, in a weird Kalliel way. They're not really similar to each other at all, except YES THEY SPEAK TO EACH OTHER OKAY) but I'm not sure if I'll be able to find it, since the comm it was written for no longer exists. I will try, though!
I love the reference to Sam's Samifer suit, especially given the direction of our present canon and the fact that it is finally 2014. And then Sam's shared reference to the very same at the end---! :D I make no secret of my opinion of Dean's Secret About Sam in the first half of S2, lol, but even aside from that it ultimately just didn't have the right resonances to work. (John's 'if you can't save your brother you're going to have to kill him' warning always seemed a bit off, because this has never really been a real choice for Dean, not even in S4/5. And in the context of S2, it was never 'you might have to kill Sam' but 'you need to decide whether to bring him back.' That kind of bait-and-switch could be cool if acknowledged as such, but no, that's just called changing your mind in the middle of writing a season. XDD OKAY ANYWAY I'M GETTING WAY OFF TOPIC HERE. TOUCHY SUBJECT, APPARENTLY. What I meant to be getting at was, this fic gives it those appropriate resonances where all of that works out, and builds and plays back on itself in really neat ways.
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I love the reference to Sam's Samifer suit, especially given the direction of our present canon and the fact that it is finally 2014. And then Sam's shared reference to the very same at the end---! :D I make no secret of my opinion of Dean's Secret About Sam in the first half of S2, lol, but even aside from that it ultimately just didn't have the right resonances to work. (John's 'if you can't save your brother you're going to have to kill him' warning always seemed a bit off, because this has never really been a real choice for Dean, not even in S4/5. And in the context of S2, it was never 'you might have to kill Sam' but 'you need to decide whether to bring him back.' That kind of bait-and-switch could be cool if acknowledged as such, but no, that's just called changing your mind in the middle of writing a season. XDD OKAY ANYWAY I'M GETTING WAY OFF TOPIC HERE. TOUCHY SUBJECT, APPARENTLY. What I meant to be getting at was, this fic gives it those appropriate resonances where all of that works out, and builds and plays back on itself in really neat ways.